Not to be a pain on this topic, but it must be time for me to rant about it yet again. 8D
...the problem of launching Udig in Windows XP from the shortcut installed by Udig's very own installer is an old familiar problem that goes back a couple years and many versions, that has been posted to the list many times. Perhaps it doesn't affect everyone, but for those like myself who are affected it definately gives this wonderful product a distinct 'unpolished' feel you might say ... as does the refractions.net homepage that has been broken for years for the great horde of IE users out there. But the arguement over making a 'standard' website versus a website that people can actually view can be left for another time. Back on topic, Long time users of Udig know to delete the shortcut that Udig's very own installer created and manually make a new shortcut that points to the Udig executable, or to just start the program directly from the executable. I'm sure some first time Udig users figure it out, but no doubt many just assume that Udig is stillborn and move on, never to know how useful the product is, and never to discover and join the community that supports the product. Thank you for reading my rant, it was written not with any offense intended, but with a little shock and surprise that this problem still has not been fixed after all this time, or at least displayed as a warning message during installation. Cheers, Ken Lord Vancouver Bc _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
